Fire engulfs Surat Municipal Corporation’s waste godown

TNN | May 31, 2017, 12.55 PM IST

SURAT: Hand carts and items impounded by the civic body were destroyed in fire that engulfed the Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) waste godown in Magob on Tuesday evening. It took fire department officials 30 minutes to control the blaze.

According fire officials, SMC waste godown located behind Silicon Palace in Magob caught fire due to some unknown reasons. As the fire started after office time there was no one on the premises other than some security guards.

Fire officials from Magob were called in to douse the fire. They saw three commercial LPG cylinders lying in the godown and immediately pulled them out. Fire officer B K Solanki said, “Luckily, we were able to pull out the cylinders. Both cylinders were full and had they caught fire there could have been a big blast.”

However, over 30 hand carts, wooden carts and large amount of wooden material seized by encroachment department was gutted. tnn